Now, you have to enter a city to know if it's connected by railroad to the capital. I propose the following change: set the trade icon's color to another one (instead of the default yellow) so it can be seen on the map at a glance if a city is connected by railroad or only by road to the capital.
An idea: change the color of cities' trade icons when connected by RR to the capital
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Torvald
Prince
That's an interesting idea you've suggested, and I kind of like it.
Right now it's rather hard to visually differentiate between road and railroad hexes, so using a different color (or perhaps even a different symbol) would be of benefit.
Right now it's rather hard to visually differentiate between road and railroad hexes, so using a different color (or perhaps even a different symbol) would be of benefit.
A color change would be more intuitive.
Thalassicus
Bytes and Nibblers
Good idea. I'm not sure it's possible to detect if a city is connected by a railroad, however. I'll ask in the main modding forum.
Thalassicus
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orangecape
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C6 looks right to me - it is similar enough to be easily recognizable as a 'connected' symbol but different enough to be easily distinguishable.
C6 or E8?
Are they used anywhere else?
Are they used anywhere else?
Thalassicus
Bytes and Nibblers
I used C6 in a few places to indicate work rate changes, but I could alter those to C5.
albie_123
Modding In Secret
I'm guessing you meant B6.
What I would really like is for all instances of E4 to be changed to B6 and vice versa, and then C6 be the Railroad connection. Failing that, C6 for the railroad, definitely.
Incidentally, do C8 through C9 ever show up in vanilla?
What I would really like is for all instances of E4 to be changed to B6 and vice versa, and then C6 be the Railroad connection. Failing that, C6 for the railroad, definitely.
Incidentally, do C8 through C9 ever show up in vanilla?
Thalassicus
Bytes and Nibblers
I don't think the later ones are in vanilla.
I used silver (C6) for the Pyramids to make it more distinct from regular trade routes. The only downside of the borderless varieties is they're harder to see on the map. The gold one might be good for roads, and gold+black for railroads... with the black border representing the added power. It's a shame we can't create new icons... but at least we have some flexibility here.
I used silver (C6) for the Pyramids to make it more distinct from regular trade routes. The only downside of the borderless varieties is they're harder to see on the map. The gold one might be good for roads, and gold+black for railroads... with the black border representing the added power. It's a shame we can't create new icons... but at least we have some flexibility here.
albie_123
Modding In Secret
Yeah, your idea sounds best.
Icon creation is something that CiV modding could really, really use, merely from an Aesthetic point of view. Oh well.
Icon creation is something that CiV modding could really, really use, merely from an Aesthetic point of view. Oh well.
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